Marriage
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Cover your sexual organs in the presence of all but your wives and bonds women. It was asked: "What about relatives?" The Holy Prophet replied: "They should try not to see each other's sexual organs." "What if one of us be naked at his (her) own privacy?", He was asked. The Holy Prophet said: "One must be much more chaste to God than to people."
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 421; Page No. 63 link
Cover your thighs, for they're part of man's privy parts.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 422; Page No. 63 link
Being serious or funning about three affairs do not reduce their serious nature: marriage, divorce, and returning to marriage (after) divorce.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 318; Page No. 50 link
Whoever wants to meet Allah pure and immaculate should meet him accompanied by a wife.
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 103, p. 220, no. 18; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 592 link
There is no institution in Islam more beloved and dearer to Allah than marriage.
Bihar al-Anwar, p. 222, no. 40; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 592 link
Marriage is my practice, so whoever rejects my practice is not from me.
Bihar al-Anwar, p. 220, no. 23; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 593 link
When any young person gets married at the prime of his youth, his inner Satan cries out in rage, 'Woe unto him! Woe unto him! Two thirds of his faith have now been secured against me, and he has only to be careful of his duty to Allah in the remaining third.
Bihar al-Anwar, p. 221, no. 34; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 593 link
A married person sleeping is better in the sight of Allah than an unmarried person spending his night in fast and prayer.
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 103, p. 221, no. 25; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 593 link
Take up a wife for verily that will bring about an increase in your sustenance.
Bihar al-Anwar, p. 217, no. 1; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 593 link
Marry those who are single among you for verily Allah will develop their moral traits [through marriage], He will increase their sustenance for them, and will enhance their integrity and gallantry.
Bihar al-Anwar,p. 222, no. 38; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 593 link
A two-unit prayer performed by a married person is better than seventy units performed by an unmarried person.
Bihar al-Anwar, p. 219, no. 15; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 594 link
The worst ones from among your dead are the single people.
Bihar al-Anwar, p. 221, no. 34; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 594 link
He who arranges for a single person to get married will be amongst those whom Allah will regard [with mercy] on the Day of Resurrection.
al-Kafi, v. 5, p. 331, no. 2; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 594 link
There are three types of people who will be shaded by Allah's Throne on the Day when no shade will avail apart from it: the one who arranged the marriage of a fellow Muslim brother, or served him in some way, or concealed his Muslim brother's faults [from others].
al-Khisal, p. 141, no. 162; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 594 link
Imam Ali ibn Musa al-Rida [a] said
The archangel Gabriel descended to the Prophet (SAWA) and told him, 'O Muhammad, verily your Lord extends salutations on you and says, 'Verily the virgins from among your women are as fruits on a tree, which when they ripen must be plucked otherwise the sun rots them and the wind alters them. So when young women reach marriageable age, they have no other recourse apart from husbands, otherwise they will not be safe from corruption.' The Prophet (SAWA) then climbed the pulpit, gathered the people and informed them of what Allah had commanded him.'
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 16, p. 223, no. 22; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 595 link
He who marries a woman solely for her beauty will not find anything he likes in her, he who marries her for her wealth will be deprived of it as soon as he marries her, so look to marry women of faith.
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 103, p. 235, no. 19; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 595 link
When someone comes to you with a proposal and you are well-pleased with his faith and his integrity then accept him in marriage, for if you do not, discord and corruption will prevail in the land.
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 103, p. 372, no. 3; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 595 link
Imam al-Hasan (AS) said to man who came to ask his advice about getting his daughter married, 'Marry her to a pious man, for if he loves her he will honour her, and if he comes to dislike her, at least he will not be unjust towards her.'
Makarim al- Akhlaq, v. 1, p. 446, no. 1534; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 596 link
The best women of my community are those that have the prettiest faces and the smallest dowries.
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 103, p. 237, no. 25; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 596 link
The bane of a woman is her excessive dowry and her disrespect of her husband.
Ma`ani al-Akhbar, p. 152, no. 1; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 596 link
Beware of the verdure growing in manure.' When asked what verdure growing in manure was, he replied, 'It is the beautiful woman that comes from an evil environment.
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 103, p. 232, no. 10; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 597 link
Beware of marrying a stupid girl for her company is a waste and her offspring are [like] hyenas.
Bihar al-Anwar, p. 237, no. 35; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 597 link
Imam al-Sadiq (AS) narrated that Umm Salama [the Prophet's wife] asked the Prophet (SAWA) about the status of women when being of service to their husbands, so he (SAWA) replied, 'Any woman who so much as moves something from one place to another in her husband's house with the intention of improving it is regarded with mercy by Allah, and whoever Allah regards [with mercy] He does not punish.'
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 103, p. 251, no. 49; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 599 link
The sacred war (jihad) of a woman is to be of excellent service to her husband.
al-Kafi, v. 5, p. 507, no. 4; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 599 link
A man's sitting beside his family is more beloved in the sight of Allah than his spending the night in worship in this mosque of mine
Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 2, p. 122; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 599 link
Verily the man who lifts a morsel of food to his wife's mouth is well rewarded
al-Mahajjat al-Baydha, v. 3, p. 70; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 599 link
If a man has a wife who mistreats him, Allah does not accept her daily prayer, nor any other good deed she performs, even if she was to fast all her life, until and unless she relieves him and pleases him and the husband will bear the same burden and punishment if he mistreats or oppresses his wife
Wasael al-Shi`aah, v. 14, p. 116, no. 1; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 599 link
I am truly astonished at the man who beats his wife when he is more deserving of the beating than her!
Jami`a al-Akhbar, p. 447, no. 1259; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 600 link
Cursed! Cursed indeed is the woman who troubles and distresses her husband; and blessed! Blessed indeed is the woman who honours her husband, does not trouble him and obeys him in all matters
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 103, p. 253, no. 55; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 600 link
Whoever patiently tolerates and puts up with his wife's bad character [for the sake of Allah], for every day and night of his endurance Allah will grant him the same reward as that granted to Prophet Job (AS) for enduring his afflictions, and for every day and night of her evildoing she will bear a burden as heavy as the sandhills of Arabia.
Sawab al-A`amal, p. 339, no. 1; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 600 link
She who patiently tolerates her husband's bad character will be rewarded equivalent to the reward granted to Asiya bint MuzaIim [Pharaoh's wife].
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 103, p. 247, no. 30; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 600 link
A virtuous wife is part of a man's prosperity
al-Kafi, v. 5, p. 327, no. 4; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 601 link
The most evil of all things is the evil wife
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 103, p. 240, no. 52; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 601 link
The believer's worst enemy is an evil wife.
al-Faqih, v. 3, p. 390, no. 4370; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 601 link
One of the Prophet's supplications was as follows: I seek refuge in You from a wife who causes me to age before my time
al-Kafi, v. 5, p. 326, no. 3; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 601 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
Be on your guard against evil women and be wary of even the best of them if they enjoin you to do good, go against them and do the opposite so that they abandon all hope of your obeying them in doing evil
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 103, p. 224, no. 4; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 602 link
He who goes to the market and buys a gift to take back to his family is as one who is taking charity to a group of needy people. He should begin [giving gifts] to the female members of his family before the males
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 104, p. 69, no. 2; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 602 link
Woe unto the woman who angers her husband, and blessed is the woman whose husband is pleased with her.
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 103,p. 246, no. 24; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 597 link
If I was in a position to command anyone to prostrate in front of anyone else, I would command the woman to prostrate in front of her husband.
al-Kafi, v. 5, p. 508, no. 6; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 597 link
The archangel Gabriel continues to bring down so much advice with regard to the [treatment of the] woman that I think she must never be divorced unless she has committed adultery.
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 103, p. 253, no. 58; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 598 link
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